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 This month we barrel headlong towards a snap general election on June 8th following local elections across Great Britain this Thursday, the EU provides a framework for a united Ireland, war rhetoric ramps up as we promise to follow Trump into Hell, Tim Farron finally lays out his position on mixed fabrics, and the foreign secretary accuses Jeremy Corbyn of being a 19th century conservative. Also some bad news for Kate McCann?  In The News The Bank of England is implicated in Libor rigging by secret recordings. Two men wearing burqas as disguises carried out an armed robbery in Leicester, look out for exciting and totally not predictable responses from the usual outlets. A man has a bread knife near Parliament. This is big news. Police shoot a woman in her home in Willesden. Maybe she also had a bread knife in her kitchen. There are conflicting reports, but the woman may have been handcuffed prior to being shot. Britain goes a full day without using coal power to generate electricity for the first time since the Industrial Revolution. Unfortunately a chunk of the replacement is unsustainably forested biomass. Suspicious packages containing white powder have been sent to SNP offices, after there was nobody to sign for them at George Osborne's. Sadiq Khan cancels the stupid waste of money known as the garden bridge before Boris's friends can suck any more public funding through it. They still manage to get away with over £30m. Leo Baxendale, creator of The Bash Street Kids and anti-war newsletter The Strategic Commentary, dies. Unlike certain other cartoonists he eventually recognized that drawing blackface minstrel caricatures was in poor taste. Little Plum though... David Cameron has bought a £25k designer garden shed to touch livestock and write books in. North Korea has a missile capable of hitting Shetland. Paper fivers stop being legal tender this week. You can still use them to negotiate private debts on mutual agreement as long as the shop doesn't have a gold fringed flag. Nick Cohen badly misquotes Voltaire to make some kind of hot take about how the left are the real intolerant ones.  UKMT Book Bus The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell Liberalism, a Counter History Domenico Losurdo The Method of Freedom Malatesta Declaration Hardt and Negri Libertarian Communism Isaac Puente Amestoy Violence Slavoj Zizek Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism V I Lenin Anarchism and Other Essays Emma Goldman Social Reform or Revolution Rosa Luxemburg Ecology of Freedom Murray Bookchin Let's Read Das Kapital Karl Marx and Goons  Mayday Mayday Mayday International Museum Day UKMT April 2017 UKMT March 2017 UKMT February 2017 UKMT January 2017 UKMT December 2016 World Whisky Day Scotpol Thread Channel Islands Liberation Day EDL/Fash Thread Cinco de Mayo  Europol Thread Take a Girl Child to Work Day Paedogeddon/Press Corruption Thread Golden Spike Day Trainchat Thread Free Comic Book Day Political Cartoons Thread International Virtual Assistants Day #ukgoons on synIRC (thanks crispix). International Hug Your Cat Day quote:1. It's not a person's fault if they are poor; Also over half the country is either an open ethnic nationalist or has 'common sense' views about same: MikeCrotch posted:Depressing crosspost from C-Spam - who likes open ethnic nationalism? Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 13:05 on May 25, 2017 |
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I got a Clydesdale Bank fiver in the pub on Saturday and it was also poly.
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May 1, 2017 00:15
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Kurtofan posted:where can i get a tim farron cardboard cutout
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May 1, 2017 10:50
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 Interesting pre-order pricepoint 
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May 1, 2017 11:45
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Seaside Loafer posted:I've never understood the reluctance for landlords to take housing benefit people. e: Jose posted:its ok the PLP have decided Yvette cooper will be their saviour after corbyn loses trhis election
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May 1, 2017 12:09
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Spangly A posted:Fergus Wilson not being dead/in prison is an affront to the rule of law
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May 1, 2017 12:44
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Schopenhauer said some bad things about Jews and black Americans in the early 19th century so I'm going to disregard everything he said about animal rights and kick a dog.
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May 1, 2017 15:04
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I don't think Simon Danczuk should be having sex. Never forget the Morning Star's perfect use of the creative linebreak. 
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May 1, 2017 19:06
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Regarde Aduck posted:If you can look at capitalism and not think "yeah we need something to replace this" you either don't understand or you're a monster. Pick one. Money on you being a monster. I believe this is called Nordic social democracy. There's also the soft leftism that never outright says gently caress capitalism but dances around it with words. This is called Clause IV. I guess we can again test the theory of what happens when things become so bad that even the police are impoverished.  Do they join the People's Revolution or the SA this time around?
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May 1, 2017 23:14
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The problem with Thatcherism is that you eventually run out of state assets.
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May 1, 2017 23:25
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Spangly A posted:my god I'd feel conflicted by a police strike
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May 1, 2017 23:33
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Oberleutnant posted:i really like big macs Of course, a chunk of that comes from working practices.
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May 2, 2017 11:53
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:
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May 2, 2017 13:49
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Cerv posted:is it really a great policy? or just a popular one? I'd also prefer if nobody else had to use foodbanks, because people being poor and desperate has shown strong links with crime. I think those two might do more to reduce crime than more officers. After that I think the best things we could do to reduce crime in the long view are free high quality preschools, environmental lead reduction, promoting reliable family planning, and trying not to be a safe haven for financial crime. I'm not sure that any of those policies would prove popular outside of the first one, because the populist view seems to be that crime exists because criminals, and only by locking/beating/stringing them up in sufficient numbers can it be reduced.
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May 2, 2017 14:03
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Ewan posted:Also decriminalise drug use, and treat it as a medical problem instead. That's another one which is never going to be popular with the tabloids, although it does seem to be picking up popularity in polls lately. Paracaidas posted:Dumbass Yank question: what are the politics of treatment vs incarceration in a nation with UHC? We struggle mightily with just-world bullshit and a desire to punish the junkies, and for the most part treatment doesn't cost anyone a dime. Is it sort of a doublebarreled opposition when the healthcare costs are socialized? The whole "junkies gettin your cash" seems to have gone down in media mentions since the 90s, maybe because of rehab becoming more talked about for rich celebs idk. Now it's people with depression and anxiety getting financial assistance which is more of an issue for tabloid shitheads.
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May 2, 2017 14:25
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mehall posted:Pissflaps has expressed issues with people being more "urban" than he expected, and I think Blair might have a similar qualifier.
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May 2, 2017 14:56
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Cerv posted:with an attitude like that, he hopefully won't get through to the end of the trial without a contempt of court charge.
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May 2, 2017 15:39
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Skinty McEdger posted:The face of anarchy in the UK. 
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May 2, 2017 16:20
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May 2, 2017 16:46
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OwlFancier posted:I'm the twerking class.
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May 2, 2017 20:54
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OwlFancier posted:Lord Flaps, First Viscount Piss.
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May 2, 2017 22:03
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£1500 a year sounds like a reasonable amount per year to end foodbank Britain and save the NHS and not be thrown in a detention center by terror police for wearing cufflinks while the regular police are reduced to begging outside the Co-Op.
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May 3, 2017 09:21
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Look who thinks they're too good to pay £250,000 to live in a single room concrete blockhouse.
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May 3, 2017 10:00
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Cerv posted:alright moneybags, can you pay my £1.5k for me then? If not, it's not a very good leftist policy.
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May 3, 2017 10:35
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You do, but it's the verb, not the noun.
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May 3, 2017 11:22
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Especially on his way out of the dock.
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May 3, 2017 11:38
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Zephro posted:The army doesn't use bombs. That's the air force's job. How can we rely on the Theresa May Party to give are boys the STRONG AND STABLE leadership they need if they're so ignorant of basic facts
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May 3, 2017 11:54
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jabby posted:EDIT: Good to see McDonnell outright call Tory attacks 'absolute lies' today. Usually politicians are far too hesitant to use that word. 
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May 3, 2017 12:03
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Praseodymi posted:EDIT: Also, she brought up a local school that was run by an ex-barclays exec, and then refused to tell me which one. 
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May 3, 2017 13:01
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JFairfax posted:Tories will repeat 'No Deal is Better than a Bad Dead' ad nauseum
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May 3, 2017 15:42
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Kurtofan posted:art of the dead Ewan posted:https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/may/03/how-do-britains-highest-earners-feel-about-their-income 
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May 3, 2017 15:49
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Pochoclo posted:However, on the subject of $100 million being easy, please bring the guillotine. How can a mind get so broken as to be able to think that, much less say it out loud and expect not to get burned at the stake? I think a 'driven and passionate individual' could start from £10m and get to £100m within 20 years, but he can gently caress off with zero. There's a reason why the saying 'the first million is the hardest' and it's because most don't get there and those that have that can take advantage of all kinds of poo poo that those without can't.
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May 3, 2017 16:24
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ronya posted:Be careful of that one. It inexorably leads you down the merry garden path of Workfare. If you have a spare million of liquid assets, you can get above the median income by purely capitalist methods, like shares with high dividends, buying a row of houses and renting them out, buying up city or airport parking spaces. Your investment may go up or down, but it's creating an income that takes care of living and allows you to be driven and passionate elsewhere. Or write newspaper articles about how miserable you are, either way that's not something that workfare would provide people with. Regarde Aduck posted:Apart from all the other awful poo poo i'm horrified that 20 years isn't a long time to these people. Oh don't worry you can be rich! In 20 years! Your best years will be behind you, you know the ones when it's most fun to have a lot of money. But you can buy a yacht and do that think where you put coke on a bit of a prostitute and smoke her or something? IDK. 20 years is a long time. A lot of otherwise healthy people will be dead in 20 years. Are these people liches? It's yes isn't it. That's the secret.
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May 3, 2017 16:43
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Bobstar posted:So the Tories are getting upset at EU citizens' non-EU spouses again Pissflaps posted:Post that tom hanks picture about it. 
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May 3, 2017 20:09
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Malcolm XML posted:That study says nothing new; its long been known that you gotta keep up with the Joneses rather than being absolutely wealthy to be happy I wonder if that explains the uptick in constant switching between different types of new age woo among the upper-middle classes. The search for contentedness commodified as a goal seeking activity. ^^^ That too. Bobstar posted:Which reminds me, I seem to remember a brief panic when some newspaper "found out" about South American people sometimes being able to get EU passports via grandparents (Pochoclo confirm/deny I'm getting this right?), and the entire continent would be moving here any day.
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May 3, 2017 20:35
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HJB posted:Council election chat: I've had one leaflet through, and it's from the Tory fella who's almost certainly going to retain his position anyway. Effort.  about the Tory candidate.
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May 3, 2017 20:45
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They got all that press equipment set up for the poly notes but nooo, let's have a 12-sided bimetallic holographic coin instead. With a secret security feature. The secret security feature is that the middle falls out and you can't spend it.
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May 3, 2017 20:48
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"Everyone has funny names now, so you might think you're meeting with a normal person but then it turns out to be some kind of Chinese" says Philip on withdrawing from public engagements.
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May 4, 2017 10:22
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Will Phil be sent back to Corfu post-Brexit now he's an immigrant spouse who doesn't work?
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May 4, 2017 11:01
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Igiari posted:I don't appreciate tomfoolery.
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